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Hi everyone...Im just wondering if my rams are fighting or pre-mating. I know these are male and female because they have had fry before. The fry made it in the community tank for like 8-9 days before vanishing one night. I cant figure a reason they would start showing aggression at this...

Hi everyone! It's been a crazy couple of months in my house with all the holidays and I started school...so I haven't been able to be online much. We are, however, having a problem in our planted tanks. There seems to be a brown algae growth on the leaves of our plants. They aren't diatoms...

Hi...another thread about a sick ram...sorry everyone. My male ram has stopped eating and is hiding out under plants on the bottom. I know they often hide before they die...and I don't want him to die...he was my first fish! I know rams are sensitive and hard to care for ...but he has been...

Hi everyone! I have finally gotten the time to set up my 55 gallon planted! Yay! :dance: I used Eco-Complete substrate with PFS on top, Marineland Double Bright LED's (24" x2), Aquaclear 110 filter and an Aquatop 200 watt digital heater. I'll be adding an air pump (the line and stone is in...

Hi there.....I am new to planted aquariums and especially unschooled in lighting. We have used real plants in our 135 gallon community tank and so far it seems to be going okay. The tank has been up and running for almost 3 months. We started with two of these lights LED Aquarium Lighting...

Hello everyone! My husband and I have been working on stocking our 135 gallon community tank...and having a great time! :dance: We are trying to make sure we have a happy and healthy world for our fish...so we don't want to overstock. (We have both developed MTS anyway and have 4 empty tanks...

So...our fluval has been running for three months without incident. It started clogging with the water polisher in...so when we used the last one...I decided to replace it with more bio max so I wouldn't have to haul the canister out to clean every two weeks. Since I have plugged it all back...

Hi everyone. So I finished painting the "stand" for my 55 gallon tank today and I'm about to bring it in and begin setup. I plan to take my time and do this right...carefull decisions. I have a idea of a design in mind for the aquascape...but I'm a bit intimidated by dirt. I plan to use pfs...

Hi there everyone! So...in my 20gallon fry tank...I had a nice full piece of hornwort floating for their comfort and to help with nitrates. When I fed my fish last night...the plant looked great! Totally normal. It's morning...less than 12 hours later...it has no foliage left at all! I can...

So a friend of mine gave me a 55 gallon tank and I'm trying to decide what to stock. I've been to all the LFSs trying to decide...but I really just get more confused. Most of the African cichlids you find are too young to have color...so that really hasn't helped. I'm pretty sure I'd like to...

Hello all! The other night we were visiting my brother and sister-in-law and noticed the HUGE amount of breeding that the live bearers have been doing! I just so happened to have a fully cycled 20g sitting on my kitchen counter waiting for fish...so I went fishing! ;-). I have no idea what...

Hi everyone! So...my husband and I are trying to have a nice shoal of Boesemanis with about 5 males and 3 females...however... The employees at our LFSs aren't very reassuring when they've chosen our fish. We currently have 12 of them...7 we bought originally and...silly me...I forgot to ask...

I everyone...I have a lighting/algae question. We have a 130 gallon community tank that is lightly planted and has been up and running for about two months now...began adding fish about threes weeks ago. We have 2 Marineland Double Bright LED 36" light fixtures on the tank and they are...

Hi everyone! I haven't been online on quite a while...but my husband and I have finally got our 135gallon tank up and running! We are cycling it without fish for a number of reasons...and I think we are doing great so far...but I have a question or two to be sure we are on the right track. We...

Hi everyone. My husband and I are setting up a 125 gallon with all of the necessary supporting tanks (hospital & quarantine etc) and I have just a few assorted questions. 1. If a tank was used briefly as a saltwater tank, is it true that it can never be safe to use as a freshwater tank again...

My husband and I are in the process of building a 125 gallon African tank...woohoo! :-). We purchased the Fluval FX5 online at a GREAT price...but we are now deciding which filter media to use in the baskets. I've done allot of reading on the media, but I would like some input from an...

Hi everyone! Just wondering about one of Dalmation mollies...she's been pretty big for a few weeks now. She's in a huge tank (240 gallon) so I'd like to be prepared if I can catch it...lol.

I again! I'm hoping someone might recognize what might be off balance in my 240g community tank. Today's readings: Ammonia=0 Nitrite=0 Nitrate=20+ ( not red enough to be 40, but a bit darker than 20) pH=8.2 (usually always 8.0) We just did a routine weekly 20% pwc on Monday and the pH has been...

Hi everyone...ok so last night we did the weekly pwc (20%) on the 240 gallon. Levels before the water change were Ammonia <.25 (it wasn't yellow...but it wasn't green. We had an upside down cat missing...so I was suspect that he was causing the small ammonia increase) Nitrite 0 Nitrate 10 pH 8...

Hi again. I am wondering about the sex of these german blue rams my husband bought for me. I have read every bit of info I can find on sexing them and just get more and more confused! So...I think the big one is a male and the younger one is a female...but maybe not. Thanks for the help...

Hi there...I'm hoping someone can tell me about how far away from delivery she might be? She was acting strange and being harassed by a male so bad that I put her in the breeder...but I don't want to make her stressed...any advice would be great! Thanks!

Hello to everyone and thank you in advance for any and all advice/comments!! I will do my best to organize this information as best as I can. My personal experience with a freshwater aquarium was 15 years old at best until about three months ago when my brother and sister in law's 3 month old...